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    Citizenship A Manual for Voters
    Citizenship A Manual for Voters
    Citizenship A Manual for Voters
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    Citizenship A Manual for Voters

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    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Citizenship A Manual for Voters - Emma Guy Cromwell

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      Title: Citizenship

      A Manual for Voters

      Author: Emma Guy Cromwell

      Release Date: May 25, 2008 [EBook #25598]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CITIZENSHIP ***

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      CITIZENSHIP

      A MANUAL
      for VOTERS

      By

      EMMA GUY CROMWELL

      Citizenship

      A MANUAL for VOTERS

      BY

      Emma Guy Cromwell

      Author of

      Cromwell's Compendium of Parliamentary Law

      formerly state librarian of kentucky

      and enrolling clerk of

      house of representatives

      SALE PRICE PER COPY, PAPER BINDING, 75c; CLOTH BINDING, $1.25

      Address

      EMMA GUY CROMWELL,

      Frankfort, Ky

      .

      Copyright 1920

      by

      Emma Guy Cromwell

      to

      The New Voters of America

      A Great Factor in Good Government

      This Booklet

      is Respectively Dedicated

      by

      The Author

      Introduction

      ealizing the need of a manual on citizenship for the new voters in Kentucky, the author has endeavored to compile such information on the government and its workings, as will be of use to all voters, especially the ones just entering political life. A strong appeal is made to the women voters of our nation to prepare themselves for public life by keeping in touch with the issues of the day as well as the functions of government. While it is a great privilege to take part in public affairs, and study the questions of the day, so that we can vote intelligently and criticize justly, let us not forget that the home is the most sacred refuge of life, the nucleus around which all pure and true civilization is formed, and that the chief end of all good government is to improve and protect the home, the church and the community.

      Will you take part in building up your government and establishing High Ideals and true democracy?

      EMMA GUY CROMWELL,

      Frankfort, Ky.

      CHAPTER I.

      Citizenship.

      G

      ood citizenship means doing well one's part as a member of the community in which he lives, and carries with it certain privileges and duties.

      A citizen is one who has the rights and privileges of the inhabitants of the community, state and nation, and as a duty should equip himself so as to render the best citizenship possible.

      There are two classes of citizens; native born, and naturalized. Persons born in the United States and children born of American parents while abroad are native born. Naturalized citizens are aliens who through the process of naturalization have attained citizenship. Naturalization itself does not give the right to vote, as that is determined by the state laws. Most states give all citizens the right to vote who have lived in the state for one year, and about eleven states permit aliens to vote provided they declare their intention of becoming citizens.

      Congress has the power to decide the conditions upon which aliens may become citizens.

      Citizenship carries with it the enjoyment of civil rights, as the protection of the home and property, freedom of speech, religion, press, protection of the laws, etc. Wherever you go your citizenship goes with you, protecting and defending you. If you are in a foreign country you must abide by the laws of that country, but should you be treated unjustly the United States would protect you.

      Our country is a land of freedom and opportunity, and it is our duty to help uplift the government, and as citizens we must study conditions and know how to govern and be governed. We must be familiar with our national and state Constitutions, for they are the fundamental principles by which we are governed. We must know how to make laws and how to have them executed. We must keep posted on the issues of the day, and know something of the standing and character of our public men and women.

      The citizen who does not possess some knowledge of his government and its workings will become a prey to the demagogue, or of individuals who are anxious to advance their own interest at the expense of the people.

      It is the duty of every man and woman under the protection of our flag to give his or her best to the country and be willing to take upon themselves the burden as well as the privilege of government, and fully appreciate the inheritance our fathers left. They built the foundation in the days of Washington and Jefferson, and as a duty we must safeguard the building.

      Citizenship not only embraces civil rights, but political rights which is the right of suffrage or voting.

      While civil rights are enjoyed by all men, women and children, political rights are enjoyed only by citizens twenty-one years old and over who possess the necessary qualifications to vote. Civil rights and political rights are not the same, for all citizens are not voters, neither are all voters citizens in the United States, as some states permit aliens to vote before they get their citizenship paper, making them real citizens.

      It is our duty to study our government and be posted on the issues of the day. There are about 27,011,330 women voters in the United States. We have the vote and let us not only count it a privilege but a duty to do our part as citizens in establishing good government.

      There are two principal parties in the United States, the Democratic party and the Republican party.

      The way to get good government is through the parties; that is one reason women must choose their party and enter into the organization of the party of their choice.

      Parties are just what their constituents

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